One small step for man...
One giant step for fishkind??
I recently got an interesting hivebuzz notification. The hivebuzz notification is not new, I usually get a few per month...
But this one was different...
This one said I was now another fish???
Haha okay so this just goes to show that I should pay a little more attention to the crypto side of things or at least the hive power side of things...
Because I didn't know what kind of fish I was before this 🤣.
I just focused on the content as much as possible and the rest kind of fell in place.
I did get some great advice/instructions on how to and why I should power up.
And I'm doing that...
But that's about it.
I guess it's working 😎😎😎.
One thing's for sure, this #HiveBloPoMo challenge has worked wonders. I have a lot more consistency and a lot more reactions to my content.
So a big thank you to you guys for the continued support 💪
Shoutout to @traciyork (also for organizing.
@fionasfavourites
@cmplxty
And @jeanlucsr for getting me started.
(I'm sure I didn't mention everyone but know that I also appreciate you)
I'm still wondering what I'm going to do after the challenge. Normally I would want to take a break but I kinda like where this is going 😁. Not sure I can keep it up for every single day, especially not with the utc deadline (blegh!) but I do like where the challenge has brought me in terms of expressing myself and creating more content... Time will tell.
Or as we Minnows say: Blub Blub Blub!
😁😁😁
As always, we can connect in the comments. Questions, tips, tricks, suggestions, all belong there. I'm friendly so don't worry 🤣.
Cheers,
Ps. The is post 28 of 30 of the #HiveBloPoMo challenge!
Congratulations on achieving minnowhood.
I believe that the long term success of HIVE depends on attracting people who want to participate in the forum at the minnow level.
The upvote calculator says your upvote is worth 0.06.
I am just shy of dolphinhood. I actually feel uncomfortable giving 100% upvotes.
I rarely give 100% votes myself! It’s best to spread votes out as far and wide as you can, the higher I grow the more I decrease my vote strength so that I can give out more!
Dolphin is a great accomplishment, congrats on that!
How does that work exactly? Is there an article somewhere? I’ve been doing 10% on most things, unless I absolute love the content, then I jump up by an order of magnitude. I’m still a total nobody here, probably an amoeba if they have that class 🤣
Anyway, yeah I’d love to understand more of what the voting does and how the percentage selected plays a role. Don’t want to take up a ton of your time, but if you could link an article or something, this noob would really appreciate it!
Just gave you a look and I think you're doing great!
One of the things that many people take a little while to figure out is there is what is called a "dust" threshold for votes. If your vote is less than .025$ or 2 and a half cents, then it won't reach payout. Payout is limited to anything over .025$ and above so if you make a post and only receive .02$ as the reward you sadly won't make anything. This is to prevent spam and abuse though, so there aren't thousands of posts at less than the .2 cents receiving money.
Now that I got that out of the way, I think you are on the right track for now. Voting at anything less than 100% is good up to a point. It's best to have 10 votes at 10% then 1 vote at 100% for what the blockchain calls "curation rewards". That's the 50/50 split between the person who created the post and all of the people who voted on it. The comment I just voted on for you, you get 50% of the .06$ that I voted on it which is .03. For me, as the "curator" I get .03 in rewards for "finding" the content to vote on.
Goin back to the 100 post analogy, it's always great, in most cases to have 10 posts curation reward coming in versus 1 post curation reward. It gets more important the higher your Hive Power gets over time but for the most part this principle holds true.
For your wallet, I personally would pull out that liquid Hive and save that for the next Power Up day happening in January (it takes 3.5 days to withdraw from savings, won't make it in time for December power up) so that you can power it up. Liquid Hive doesn't earn any interest in the savings account, only HBD earns interest so it's best to just keep it liquid for you to use it when you need to. You also don't need to wait and can just power it up anyways, that's always an option!
The last point I wanted to just iterate is that I would try to stay around above 92% voting power that way your vote is worth a good amount but you aren't wasting your voting power sitting at 100%. I don't recommend going below 90% personally, but others have different opinions on that.
What website do you use to access the Hive blockchain? Do you use PeakD, Ecency or what other front-end? Just curious!
I love helping folks out so don't worry man!
Wow, this is a lot to digest, but makes pretty good sense at first glance. I’m definitely going to want to read this again later for comprehension, but certain points just made sense immediately, like the minimum for payout.
I’m switching my vote for now to >90%. So far I’ve never depleted my voting power, so I’ll take it for a spin this way and see what happens.
I thought I noticed that the 10% in savings only applied to the HBD, yeah I’ll move that over to HP as soon as I can get it released. I’m hoping Doge climbs up again so I can liquidate and bring it over here. I never really knew what Doge was, but Hive seems to make a lot of sense…it’s an investment I can sincerely get behind.
I’ve been using 3Speak and Ecency so far. Outside of these two things and my keychain, I’m in way over my head! …I’m just hoping I can piece it all together as I go, cuz if I wait to understand all this before I join up, I’d probably never get in :)
Ah sorry I meant to be a little clearer but it helps to know that you use Ecency. I think if you click on the settings bar it brings over a pop-up box on the left side of your phone and you can see your voting percentage.
By voting I meant this "mana" section here. You don't want this to dip below 92% when you are out there voting on content. Your votes get spent and it takes time to recharge it all. The more you vote, the lower it goes and your overall vote gets decreased as well over time until it recharges.
Another thing, just checking out your profile in more depth, I would limit yourself to 1 or 2 posts a day maximum. More than that can be considered spam and you can get down voted and flagged for it so scale it back a bit. I think it's awesome you're posting! Just stretch it out. You can even schedule posts for a future date which is really cool.
It's great that you're using Ecency, you get activity points and you can use those points to boost, or upvote, your posts and help get yourself some more Hive Power!
Doge is okay, I don't know if I would liquidate all of it but it's definitely great to have a good stake here on Hive!
Thanks for this, that makes a LOT more sense! I’ve definitely been over-posting by that criteria…yeah, I’ll step it back a touch. This was probably a bit special since I mainly wanted to get my new communities off the ground, but good to know now before I form a habit of inadvertent over-posting!
As for Doge, I was just coming to the same conclusion, if nothing else just because I planned on leaving it in my ledger wallet for 10 years before messing with it…hate to have an empty ledger after all that time, so no more than half but I’m really excited to add to my HP here.
Congratulations my former Redfish! Officially a Minnow now! Great job and next up is Dolphin! That is what I am and I don't know how much it is to get to Orca... probably a long way for me! :)
Great job! Have a great night!
I know! I remember seeing this guys intro post way back when! Feels great to see the growth! Happy I sponsored him with some basic income shares!
I find it cool to watch the growth!!! Woo hoo! Let's grow some more redfish!!
Thank you thank you! 🥳🥳🥳.
Glad we can now talk on a certain fish level 🤣
Awesome job man, congrats! Before minnow is redfish and after minnow is dolphin, then orca then whale. Don’t know what’s up with the fish references hahaha
I’m stoked to see you are now a minnow! What it means is you have a certain amount of MVests in the platform which is usually around 500-550 hive power last I remember. I don’t know the calculation for hive power and MVests but it’s something wild. In any case, it’s awesome you are now a minnow! Curation rewards are going to really start to kick up in the coming months, that’s awesome!
Thank you! And thanks again for the support!
I'm going to have to Google MVests, but power I get.
I'm also going to look into the curation part because that's where I've been lacking I think. I mean I upvote things and to manual curation but not on a level that I've delegated.
It's on the list!
I’ll get some info for you in a bit!
This is fan-bloody-tastic! Congratulations!
That is exactly what I did. Minnow idna huge milestone. Your account will begin to grow more quickly. That's whay I've done - and more consistently over last year or so, and look here:
If you can, find a rhythm for posting most days. When #HiveBloPoMo is over, work out when suits you and post consistently around that time and then the UTC timezone isn't so important. Then, and, when April and the next edition arrive, you are in the groove. So to speak.
I am glad to have played a little part in this big achievement.
Thank you! And thank you for the support!
I think that's the right plan, just keep focusing on the content and make sure to keep some consistency in here.. Come to think of it the utc time has nothing to do with me posting if there is no specific challenge 🥳
Exactly, so once you get into a rhythm, HiveBloPomo takes care of itself...🙂
Congrats!! That's awesome.
And you're about to do something I've never did.. for the second time!!
Just 3 more days.. that @hivebuzz badge is waiting for you :D...
Thanks man! Join us next time.... Come over to the dark side 🤣
One day ;)
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Well done man keep on going, good to see you thriving
Thank you thank you!
That's really cool! Loving the commitment and consistency you've be demonstrating here :D
Hahah thanks man!
🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations to the leveling up! 👍🎊
I myself tend to forget the "hierarchy" of the fish, but definitely aiming to the next one. Let's do this! 💪
Blub Blub!
Haha that means thank you and I agree!
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Congratz!
Thank you!
Thank you! And thanks for your challenge, helped a lot!
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Well thank you my Pizza friends! 😂
It's such an exciting notification to get, I felt really quite proud when I got mine.
Keep up the great work and your awesome photos and you'll go from strength to strength.
Cheers 🍻